Kimberly- Nothern
Cape’s department of Health convened a two day ministerial internal stakeholder
consultation session with the objective of improving the delivery of health
care services to communities. MEC for Health, Ms. Fufe Makatong addressed a two
(2) day session organised to strengthen the provincial healthcare system that
will in turn respond positively towards achieving the 2018/19 Departmental
Annual Performance Plan (APP) targets. Speaking to The Informer,
Communications officer at the Department Lebogang Majaha said: “This strategic
session comes two weeks after MEC Makatong criss-crossed the province, visiting
district offices and healthcare facilities with the purpose of creating
different platforms for staff and health stakeholders to raise their challenges
and also propose possible solutions that will assist towards improving the
delivery of healthcare services to communities.” Majaha further stated that the
two (2) day Ministerial Internal Stakeholder Consultation Session was premised
on the following important thrusts; to assess the state of readiness of the
department to implement 2018/19 budgets in line with the Annual Performance
Plan.
Strengthening financial
planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as ensuring
rational budget allocation to programmes, hospitals, districts and facilities.
Additionally, it also seeks to determine the readiness to implement and monitor
budgets for non-negotiability at facility level as well as promoting forward
planning through procurement plans. Not excluding the evaluation of credibility
of the budget allocations both the equitable share and conditional grants and
to provide strategies that seeks to reduce the ever growing accruals in health
departments. This process, as Majaha elaborates also seeks to deal with
administrative inefficiencies and poor service delivery of provincial
importance in health which has emerged in the recent past all over the media that
affects communities. “MEC re-emphasized a drastic need to overhaul management
of the department before the end of the current financial year and she firmly
believes that this process will assist towards improving the health outcomes
and reposition the administration,” said Majaha
Source:
Department of health communication
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